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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Robert Bannister  wrote:   
      
   >On 23/08/13 2:11 PM, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
      
   >>> I don't recall hearing the term until FM became popular,   
   >>> and that's not very long ago. All we knew was Short Wave,   
   >>> Medium Wave and Long Wave.   
   >>   
   >> Which term?  AM radio?  I remember making the AM - FM   
   >> distinction over 50 years ago, and I’ve been listening to FM   
   >> for at least 45 years (and most definitely *not* listening   
   >> to AM!).   
   >   
   >Interesting. I had never heard of either until about 20-25 years ago, if   
   >that long. I still don't know what they stand for and am too lazy to   
   >look it up. FM radio here only seems to play music, so it does not   
   >attract me at all, but I'm told a Big Change is coming, which presumably   
   >means the stations I do listen to will migrate.   
      
   My parents had an FM tube radio before we moved to Kelowna in 1964,   
   twice a long ago as you mention.  I was listening to FM stations on   
   the cable TV connection when going to university in 1978.   
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